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Do you share this compulsion that roundels have to be always facing up?

I always envied the Japanese because their symbol is always straight.

It has been nine years of shifting gears while rotating the knob to compensate for the fact that the roundel spins inside the plastic shifter knob, and spins more on hot days. Well today the roundel stuck to my hand and I diagnosed idiocy on top of my compulsion. You can peel the back of the roundel to expose the adhesive...

So now it is glued to the knob, I can go back to counting tiles on the sidewalk while I drive on the street.
 

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Absolutely, depending on my mood I rotated between 2 shift knobs, a leather w/logo and a wood w/logo, I just bought a wood w/out logo just for this reason, I would be making the logo straight after working through the gears (seems to drift clockwise) while cruising.

Now with the logo-less wood knob, I am free to obsess over my AFR and temp gauges more...

Help...
 
I try to keep my BMW logo pointing at the 11' o'clock direction, so about 15' anticlockwise (for RHD position), so the emblem is kind of facing me all the time :wink:
keeping up with earlier BMW's design that all dials/buttons/console are always facing the driver. a design that they dropped in the early 90's.
 
A prerequisite for any purchase for me. Car can be perfect and free, but if the Roundel is not straight, well that's signs of poor parenting.
 
No, why?
Everybody knows ARDE is an acronym.

johanaxelson said:
You called Arde?

oh..

I just sell the car and get a new one if the wheel caps get out of alignment, if it happens once the car gets dirty for me. Can't keep it.
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Stan said:
You like insects?

Associazione Romana di Entomologia (Italian: Rome Entomological Association)
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You found it.
These Italian ants were a constant family yearning when I grew up.
But it involved pomodoro so it must be aunts not ants.
 
I broke the side walk habit and now just cut down all the trees at the side of the road with my imaginary chain saw.
 
Stan said:
I admit to rotating the Alpina caps on my wheels when parking but only when the car is on display
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I was working for Lotus at Pebble Beach a few years back, and when we found out we couldn't rotate the center caps, we jacked the cars up and moved the wheels. It's the little things that count.
 
I'm thinking "design flaw" they should look the same no matter what position. Someone call the chief engineer this is an outrage!
 
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